Could Apple Siri send you 20 bucks? I'm David Brancaccio. First, it's the first day of a new Congress. Republicans control the House and the Senate, although who will lead the lower chamber is still up in the air ahead of a vote today for House Speaker. Marketplaces Kimberly Adams has more on implications here for economic policy.

Top of the economic agenda for the new Congress, says Adam Michelle, director of tax policy

studies at the Cato Institute.

What happens with the Trump tax cuts that were passed in 2017?

Many provisions of that tax law expire at the end of this year, especially the individual

tax cuts for most Americans.

And interest groups are already clamoring for the elements they want to preserve or change.

Congress will sort of inevitably have to do something.

And what they do, how they deal with that deadline, will impact sort of every American's finances.

While unified GOP control of the White House in Congress makes things like confirming

cabinet members and judges a bit easier in the Senate.

The House majority is incredibly slim.

Lindsay Owens leads a groundwork collaborative and economic policy think tank.

She says for the more complicated issues like taxes, immigration, and economic policy think tank. She says for the more complicated

issues like taxes, immigration, and energy policy, we'll see Congress attempt to use reconciliation,

which is the tool that they have when they need to pass bills with a simple majority in the

House and the Senate to move through key pieces of their agenda. But even then, says Owens,

Republicans will have to deal with some infighting over what to prioritize and how to pay for it.

In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace. Multiple published reports this morning say

President Biden is set to block the $15 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by Napan Steel. Napan means Japan.

U.S. Steel's stock is down 8.5% in overnight trading here.

The BBC's Mariko Oi says this would be despite concessions by the two companies.

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